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Eminence College is situated in Henry County, Kentucky, near the L. C. 
& L. E. R., forty miles from Louisville, twenty-five miles from Frankfort, 
and one mile from the Eminence Station, immediately on the turnpike road 
to Shelbyville. Its situation is all that could be desired for an institution of 
learning. It stands aloof from the contaminating influences of town or citv. 
These influences, exerted over young and ardent minds, too often more than 
couter balance any advantages derived from scholastic training. The situation 
of the College in the country, in the midst of an intelligent and moral com- 
munity, saves the students from those allurements and excitements which 
divert the mind from study, and lead to the formation of vicious habits. 



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In the year 1855, a number of public spirited citizens of this vicinity deter- 
mined to establish a high school . They acted with promptness and energy in se- 
curing subscriptions of stock; and in less than two years the necessary build- 
ings were completed, a charter was granted, and the first session of the school 
was open in September, 1857. Prof. S. G. Mullins, of the Greenville Institute, 
at Harrodsburg, accepted the principalship, but resigned at the end of the first 
session. The building committee had made the not uncommon blunder of 
going beyond their means, and the school was encumbered with a debt that 
would have paralyzed its usefulness unless removed. The property was con- 
sequently sold, to pay the debt, a new company formed, the old stock sunk, 
and the school placed in charge of W. S. Giltner, a graduate of Bethany 
College, under whose efficient management it has prospered ever since. The 
growth of Eminence Male and Female High School into Eminence College 
was a natural one. The buildings were commodious; the patronage was large 
and well sustained; many of the matriculates were prepared for more advanced 
studies than those of a high school ; and, consequently, in 1861, an amendment 
to the charter was secured, granting the Institution college privileges and 
changing its name accordingly. 

One of the chief advantages which Eminence College affords is, that it is 
school where the sexes may be educated together. The idea adopted and 





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acted upon by Roman Catholics, and concurred in by Protestants generally, 
that the only way to strengthen the minds and improve the morals of youth 
so as to qualify them for the discharge of the active duties of life, is to seclude 
them from the world during the period of their training by immuring them 
in cloisters, is gradually giving way before the light of intelligent experience 
and philosophic observation. Protestant nunneries, as schools of education and 
discipline, are fast becoming as unpopular as Catholic convents have already 
become. A young lady, educated in entire seclusion from the world, upon 
whose great theater she is soon to enter as an actress, is but ill provided to meet 
the responsibilities and discharge the duties which will devolve upon her when 
she assumes her place as a constituent element of society. No system of edu- 
cation is natural that ignores the relations that the God of nature has estab- 
lished, and no amount of theory can compensate for the loss of experience which 
can only be gained by daily contact with those with whom we are to be asso- 
ciated in subsequent life. Consequently, all systems of education which sepa- 
rate the sexes, while they are being prepared for the duties and responsibilities 
of life, are founded in ignorance of the true constitution of mankind, and the 
real nature of virtue. It is a well-known fact, patent to all, that brothers edu- 
cated under the refining and sanctifying influences of sisters are more firmly 
established in all the principles of a high and noble manhood than those 
who do not enjoy such hallowing influences. The same may be said of sis- 
ters nurtured in the daily association with brothers. They are developed 
into a stronger and holier womanhood, and" consequently are better qualified 
to discharge the duties of active life. 

God, who created man, and thoroughly understood the wants of his being, 
saw that it was not good for man to be alone, and all human experience at- 
tests the truth of Divine omniscience, that there is no period in man's exist- 
ence, from the cradle to the grave, when it is good for him, either morally or 
intellectually, to be alone — apart from the refining presence of the opposite 
sex. After an. experience of twenty-four years in the management of schools, 
we give, as our settled conviction, that higher intellectual development, and 
greater moral purity, can be attained by the co-ordinate education of the 
sexes than can be reached when their education is conducted in separate in- 
stitutions. 

It has been objected that the co-education of the sexes will lower the 
standard of scholarship. But this objection is refuted by the testimony of 
experience. Many instructors in mixed schools have borne testimony to the 
ability of young ladies to compete with young gentlemen in the various de- 
partments of the course, and to equal them in vigorous thought and patient 
study. There is no danger of colleges suffering in reputation, dignity, or 
scholarship by co-education. Fears as to lax morals and rude manners 
resulting from this system are ungrounded. This association of the sexes 
awakens in them a correct appreciation of each other. Their sense of all 
that is pure and refined in human conduct is better developed. Immorality 
is restrained, and propriety and courtesy of manner are stimulated. 



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There is an energy of spirit, and a moral polish of character, which this 
system has demonstrated as perfectly practicable, and has exhibited as a nat- 
ural, necessary, and rational result, which has not and can not be obtained in 
any other way. 

The teachers of mixed schools universally testify to the brilliancy and life 
which the enthusiastic and intuitive mental action of woman imparts to the 
recitation room; and we believe that it is in this system of co-education that 
she is to find the means for her proper culture, and the preparation for those 
dignified and beneficent offices which God has assigned her in the great econ- 
omy of life. * 

Our own method of co-education is briefly as follows: The boarding places 
of the boys and girls are entirely separated; the girls alone boarding in the 
family of the president, while a special boarding house is provided for the 
boys a short distance from the college buildings. They are associated during 
school hours under one roof, sitting in separate apartments, according to their 
grades, and meeting each other in the chapel exercises every morning, and 
reciting together in the classes to which they happen to belong. As our3 
was the first college in this State, and one of the first in the Union, to advocate 
the co-education of the sexes, we adopted a special course of study for girls, 
the one usually taught in schools devoted exclusively to their education, that 
they might find privileges in a college, and from association with the other 
sex in certain classes common to both courses, might be incited to under- 
take more advanced studies. This plan has succeeded admirably; and our 
list of graduates has now for several years shown the names of girls who stood 
by the side of the boys for the honors of a college course. 

The following course, with some variations, is the one usually adopted in 
institutions devoted exclusively to the education of females; and to all young 
ladies who pass through these grades, and stand a satisfactory examination 
under each, a diploma will be granted. 



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FOR FEMALES. 




Fourth 

FIRST TERM. 

Arithmetic [Robinson]. 
Algebra [Robinson]. 
English Grammar [Butler]. 
General History [ Anderson] . 

Ancient Geography [Mitchell] 



Grade. 

SECOND TERM. 

Arithmetic [Robinson]. 
Algebra [Robinson]. 
English Grammar [Butler]. 
Science of Common Things 

[Wells]. 
Modern Geography [Monteith]. 




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Third Grade. 

Arithmetic [Robinson]. Arithmetic [Robinson]. 

Algebra [Robinson]. Algebra [Robinson], 

History of England [Goodrich]. History of France [Goodrich]. 
Composition [Bonnelt]. Composition [BonnelT]. 

Physiology [Hutchinson]. Botany [Gray]. 

Second Grade. 



Geometry [Robinson]. 
Rhetoric [Hart], 
Natural Philosophy [ Wells]. 
Zoology [Agassiz]. 

History of the United States 
[Goodrich]. 



Geometry [Robinson]. 
Rhetoric [Hart]. 
Natural Philosophy [Wells]. 
Principles of Domestic Science 

[St owe]. 
Science of Government 
[Alden]. 



First Grade. 

English Literature [Hart]. English Literature [Hart]. 



Chemistry [ Wells]. 
Geology [Wells]. 
Reason and Revelation 

[Milligan], 
Astronomy [Ray]. 



Chemistry [TTefts]. 
Logic [Schuyler]. 
Evidences of Christianity 

[Barnes]. 
Phrenology [Combe]. 



We recommend, however, the following combined Curriculum to 
all who have the time and means to pursue a more liberal course of 
study : 



1.— Department of Ancient Languages. 



LATIN. 



Grammar [Bullions]; Reader [Bullions]; Prose Composition 
[ Allen] ; Caesar's Commentaries [Anthon] ; Virgil — ^Eneid 
[Anthon] ; Prosody [Anthon] ; Sallust — Jugurthine War and 
Conspiracy of Cataline [Anthon]; Cicero — Select Orations 
[Anthon]; Horace [Anthon]; Tacitus— Germ ania and Agric- 
ola [Anthon]; Roman Literature — A Course of Lectures; 
History of Rome [Smith]. 

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GREEK. 

Grammar [Bullions] ; Reader [Bullions] ; Prose Composition 
[Boise]; Xenophon — Anabasis [Anthon]; Herodotus [Johnson] ; 
Xenophon— Memorabilia [Anthon] \ Homer— Iliad [Anthon]; 
Prosody [Anthon]; Plato- Gorgias [Woolsey]; Demosthenes — 
De Corona [Champlin]; A Greek Tragedy; Greek Litera- 
ture—A Course op Lectures; History of Greece [Smith]. 

2. — Department of Mathematics. 

University Arithmetic [Robinson]; University Algebra 
[Robinson] ; Geometry [Robinson] ; Plane and Spherical Trig- 
onometry [Robinson] ; Surveying and Navigation [Robinson] ; 
Conic Sections and Analytical Geometry [Robinson] ; Astron- 
omy [Robinson] ; Calculus — Optional [P<cJc], 

3.— Department of Physics and Chemistry. 

Natural Philosophy [We/?s]; Chemistry [TFe^s]; Anatomy 
[Cutter]; Geology [ Wells] ; Zoology [Agassiz]; Natural His- 
tory [Hooker]. 

4.— Department of Mental Philosophy. 

Elements of Intellectual Philosophy [Porter]; Logic 
[Schuyler]] ^Esthetics [Day] ; Phrenology [Combe], with a 
Course of Lectures; Intuitions of the Mind [McCosh]. 

5*— Department of Biblical Literature. 

The Bible— Daily Readings; for Critical Study, '76-77, 
the Gospel of Luke, the Acts of the Apostles, and the 
Pastoral Epistles; Reason and Revelation [Milligon]; Evi- 
dences of Christianity [Barnes] ; Analogy [Butler] ; Church 
History — A Course of Lectures. 



6.— Department of Modern Languages. 

ENGLISH. 

Grammar [Fowler]; Rhetoric [Hart]; English Literature 
[Hart]; English Synonyms [Graham]; History of England 
[Smith] ; American Literature [Hart] ; History of the United 
States [Wilson]. 





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FRENCH (Optional). 

Grammar \Fa&quelle\\ Fenelon's Telemaque, Paul et Vir- 
ginia; Voltaire's Charles XII. ; Stael'sCorinne; Literature 
Francaise. 

ITALIAN (Optional). 

Ollendorff Method; Foresti's Reader; Dall's Ongaro 
Rosa Dell' Alpi ; Dante's Divina Comedia ; Pallico's Fran- 
cesca; de Dimini: Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata. 

GERMAN (Optional). 

Grammar [ Woodbtiry] ; Fouque's Undine ; Goethe's Iphigenie ; 
Schiller's Maria Stuart ; German Literature \_Adler\. 

We would invite special attention to this Curriculum. It will be 
seen that we are fully abreast of the times in both the matter and 
manner of education. We have, we think, instituted a thorough, 
progressive, and liberal course of study. We have adopted the most 
approved text-books, and have placed in the College Library all 
necessary volumes of reference, which the eager student can con- 
sult for additional information on the subject of his studies 

When a student has undergone a satisfactory examination in any 
particular department, he or she will be entitled to a certificate of 
graduation in that department ; and the possession of certificates 
from the various departments of the Curriculum entitles the holder 
to the degree of A. B. The degree of B. S. is conferred on those 
students who complete the Scientific part of the course, and have a 
certificate to that effect. 

THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT. 

This Department has always been one of the special features of 
the College. It maintains a regular Professorship, which requires 
efficient qualifications in the one who performs its duties. Pupils 
enjoy under it the best advantages of a training in vocal and instru- 
mental music. The merit of the classes has always stood high — a 
signal proof of which is seen in the concerts given at the close of 
the session, also in the fact that quite a number of academies and 
female colleges have been supplied with teachers from the graduates 
of this department. 

THE ART DEPARTMENT. 

This Department, too. has an excellent reputation. It gives in- 
structions in painting, drawing and embroidery. The best teachers 






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are always employed ; and a session's work shows no little industry 
and artistic skill on the part of the pupils. 

DISCIPLINE. 

The discipline of the College is parental and mild, yet firm. 

APPARATUS. 

The College is supplied with Philosophical and Chemical Appa- 
ratus sufficient to illustrate satisfactorily to the class the various 
branches of these sciences. One of Barlow's celebrated Planetari- 
ums is now the property of the Institution. Additions will be made 
to these from time to time, as the wants of the College may require. 

LIBRARY. 

The President has a private library, to which the students have 
access under certain restrictions. The foundation of a College 
Library has been laid. Contributions in the way of books or money 
will be thankfully received. 

cabinet. . 
A complete Cabinet of Mineralogical and Geological specimens 
must be the work of time, More than a thousand specimens have 
been obtained, together with some bones of a mastodon, exhumed 
in the construction of a railroad through this place. 

Literary Societies. 

There are four literary societies connected with the College. 

THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY 

Is composed of the young men of the Institution. Many of its 
members are young gentlemen of fine ability and clever attainments. 
They edit the Philomathean Journal, a paper of some considerable 
spirit. They have laid the foundation of a library, and have made 
provision to gre&tly increase the present number of volumes. 

'THE RISING STAR SOCIETY 

Embraces the young ladies of the Senior Class, and many of its 
members bid fair to become stars of the first magnitude in the lit- 
erary galaxy of illustrious names that adorn our nation. The organ 
of this Society is the Prismatic Gem, a periodical containing many 
literary gems of rare worth. Many of the articles would do credit 
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THE STAR OF HOPE SOCIETY 

Includes in its membership the young misses of the Junior and 
Preparatory Departments, who ere many years expect to be enrolled 
among the rising stars, as aspirants for the honors that literary 
merit alone confers. The Dewdrop, a neat little paper, affords them 
an opportunity of introducing their youthful productions to public 
notice. 

THE PLATONEAN SOCIETY 

Was organized the present year by a number of the younger boys 
of the School. They have displayed great zeal in their regular 
weekly work, and their public entertainments did credit to their 
talents. 



EMINENCE COLLEGE 

Has been in successful operation for nineteen years. It has attained 
this success without one cent of endowment, relying upon the 
tuition fees alone to meet the expenses. Four professorships have 
been regularly maintained, namely, of Biblical Literature. Mental 
Philosophy, and Chemistry ; of Mathematics ; of Greek, Latin, and 
Rhetoric; and of Natural Philosophy, Physiology, and Botany. 
In addition to these there has been a Music Department, well 
equipped with first-class instruments and supplied with able pro- 
fessors ; also an Art Department with all the appliances of first- 
class instruction under the best of teachers. 

The lowest number of matriculates, for one session, is 126 ; the 
highest, 204 — the sexes being about equally divided. 129 have 
been graduated — the lowest number of one session being one ; the 
highest, eighteen. 

Our graduating class has reached quite a respectable number, and 
we have no hesitation in speaking of its members as worthy to be 
compared in point of scholarship and culture with those sent forth 
from other colleges in the South and West. Many of these have 
taken rank among the first and most honored in the various learned 
professions. Severn,! colleges have been supplied with presidents? 
and others with professors ; the pulpit, the bar, the medical pro- 
fession, and the halls of legislation are occupied by men educated in 
whole or in part at Eminence College. To these we point with 
peculiar pride, and appeal to them rather than to magnificent b 
ings and munificent endowments, in proof of the hale and 
gressive life that prevails at Eminence College. 





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